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Jiang Qichen, the KMT president, born in 1972, can hope to stabilize his position in the party.
Taiwan’s largest opposition party, the Kuomintang, recently suddenly proposed in the Taiwan Legislative Yuan “Taiwan-US diplomatic relations” and “The government should ask the US to help resist the CCP.” They were supported by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party and were quickly passed in the Legislative Yuan.
Professor Shen Youzhong from the Department of Political Science at Tunghai University in Taiwan told BBC China that the president of the KMT, Jiang Qichen, promoted these two bills, “the internal importance is greater than the external, the symbolic importance is greater than substance. ” The resolution is relatively close to the nature of political statements and is not for the administrative department. Legal binding force.
KMT Mentions “Resumption of Diplomatic Relations Between Taiwan and the United States”
These two bills were quickly and unanimously passed by the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan. The main content includes the recommendation that “the Tsai government should use the United States and the ROC to restore diplomatic relations with the United States as the goal of diplomatic relations with the United States and actively promote”, and “urging the government to persuade the United States to assist Taiwan Strait Security”. These two bills unexpectedly caused a “great reconciliation between the ruling and opposition parties” in Taiwan.
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United States Under Secretary of State Clarke visited Taiwan on September 17. He is the highest-ranking US State Department official to have visited Taiwan since the severance of diplomatic relations with the United States in 41 years.
Details of the bill also include: “In view of the CCP’s continued deployment of military aircraft in Taiwan, the ruling and opposition parties have jointly called on the CCP to contain and stop all provocative behavior.” The Tsai government “should resume dialogue as soon as possible to ease the cross-strait conflict and not to strain the Taiwan Strait. The situation is heating up again.”; “The United States has long been a solid backer for Taiwan’s armed forces. The Tsai government must actively persuade the US government to follow the spirit of its Taiwan Relations Act. Once the Communist Party of China clearly endangers the safety of the Taiwanese people and the socioeconomic system, If requested, help our country to resist. “
Jiang Qichen said on a Taiwan radio show today (October 7) that if the Kuomintang is in power, cross-strait relations will not be as tense. He also said that Beijing has always said that it will win the hearts of the people of Taiwan. Therefore, he hopes that the two sides will respect each other and that the mainland needs to know China. The ROC is a sovereign country.
Criticism of Beijing
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of China criticized the Kuomintang for this matter. Spokesman Zhu Fenglian said: “The current situation in the Taiwan Strait is complicated, severe and tense. The rationale is that the DPP has linked up with external forces and has continuously taken provocative actions against Taiwan’s independence. The parties politicians must have a clear understanding of this, be very vigilant and resolutely oppose this. “
Jiang Qichen replied that Taiwan and the United States have had diplomatic relations before, and the KMT mentioned that the most important purpose of the two straits is to promote the normalization of Taiwan-United States relations. He said “pro-America and land” policy has always been the line and tone of the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang “absolutely discriminates between good and evil” and defends the position of the ROC to safeguard the sovereignty of the ROC and the security and peace of the Taiwan Strait. This is what benefits the Chinese nation the most. . “
Route battle
Professor Shen Youzhong, from the Department of Political Science at Tunghai University in Taiwan, believes that no one in Taiwan does not want to establish diplomatic relations with the United States. Most people also hope that if there is a military conflict between the two sides of the strait, the United States will help Taiwan. This is a high consensus of the Taiwanese society. However, since this summer, many high-level members of the KMT, such as former President Ma Ying-jeou and some lawmakers from the “suspect” faction, have successively criticized or questioned US speeches, sparking controversy or criticism.
“Therefore, this resolution should be an internal effort by Jiang Qichen to avoid the risk of the Kuomintang bottoming out, and hope to use public support to stabilize his position as chairman of the Kuomintang and win the next election of the president,” he added . .
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Jiang Qichen (fourth from left) did not mention the “92 Consensus” in his speech when he was elected president of the KMT. On the same stage as Ma Ying-jeou and other elders in the 2020 Party Congress, he put the 1992 consensus back at the center of his discussion.
Taiwanese political scholar Ding Shufan also stated in an interview that the Kuomintang’s proposal is not to alienate the continent but to save itself.
Former Taiwanese President and Kuomintang member Ma Ying-jeou spoke with Taiwan and the United States in recent months. He said very prominently that the situation in the Taiwan Strait is that the American aircraft carrier is backward and cannot support Taiwan. There is a conflict between the two sides of the strait and the United States cannot help Taiwan. .
In response to the visit of the US Undersecretary of State Keith Krach to Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou criticized the fact that there were no real negotiations in diplomatic exchanges, which was inconsistent with expectations, which only increased the tension in cross-strait relationships. “The higher the level of the Americans, the more tense the situation is.”
Furthermore, Kuomintang non-district legislator Ye Yulan recently addressed US President Trump and his wife’s infection and invited them to Taiwan for treatment in English on Facebook, saying, “If you go to Taiwan for receiving treatment, test results can change from positive to negative. “After this move drew criticism, Ye Yulan deleted the article and apologized.
Therefore, the Taiwanese public opinion believes that Jiang Qichen’s proposal of this case this time is hoping to win the support of external public opinion and mediate with the alleged American faction in the party represented by Ma Ying-jeou.
This is because, after the defeat of the Kuomintang presidential candidate Han Yu, many cross-strait adjustments proposed by Jiang Qichen, including the possibility of eliminating the “Consensus of 92” in cross-strait discussions, etc. ., have suffered from former Kuomintang chairman Ma Ying-jeou, Lien Chan and In Hong Xiuzhu’s criticism, under the suppression of mainstream public opinion and the Kuomintang’s suspicion of the United States, Jiang Qichen often quarreled over side to side.
“The proposal of this motion should be the actuarial calculation of Jiang Qichen’s attempt to get out of the situation, and then it depends on how Beijing and Ma Ying-jeou respond,” Shen Youzhong said.
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KMT supporters are mostly elderly.
According to Taiwan Dongsen News, Ma Ying-jeou attended an interview in Taipei today (October 7) and said that she was unaware that the Kuomintang Legislative Yuan caucus had proposed the case to resume diplomatic relations between Taiwan and the United States.
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie said in an exclusive interview with National Public Radio (NPR) in September this year that Taiwan does not currently seek “to establish comprehensive diplomatic relations” with the United States. If Taiwan conflicts with China, Taiwan will not depend on US intervention. “The defense against Taiwan is Taiwan. With its own risks and responsibilities, Taiwan will work hard to prepare for the future situation.”
Taiwan’s representative to the United States, Xiao Meiqin, said in a videoconference in the United States: “Many Taiwanese hope that the political relations between Taiwan and the United States will break down, but in a complex geostrategic environment, all the conditions will be in place to move forward, and the government has yet to face it with caution. “
Liu Shijie, director of the International Department of the Era of the Taiwan Opposition Party, judged that no matter who the next US president is, the Legislative Yuan, which represents Taiwan’s public opinion, will pass these two resolutions. Pressure was created when the department negotiated.
